Texas

Origin

From the practice of naming cabins after U.S. states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.

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Noun

1. the top-most cabin deck on a steamboat1866: New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)
2. She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.

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